It's genuinely a little horrifying how quickly people on this site adopted Nazi/white supremacist language literally minutes after October 7th.
Like where did you learn these terms? Where did you learn to use "Zionist" like that? Where did you learn "ZOG"? When did you start talking about "Jewish media" and where did you learn it from?
Guys seriously. This shit isn't just antisemitism, it's Nazi-conspiracy hate for Jews. This is shit you find on 4chan or hear at a Neo-Nazi meeting. Who the fuck are you hanging out with that they were so fine with using this language?
You didn't say shit like this a year ago. Not a one of you. None of you were decrying the "evils of Zionism". None of you were talking about "Zionist Occupied Governments". None of you used any of this antisemitic language. Now? It's fucking everywhere.
So. Where did you hear it from?
Yeah... It's been really disturbing to me as well. I've been trying to call folks who I'm friendly with on it when I see it, but... Yeah.
I'm not Jewish, but unfortunately due to circles I used to run in, I've become pretty familiar with a lot of the dogwhistles. Since last year I've been seeing them *everywhere*, repeated and amplified by people who (I hope) are just naively repeating talking points.
I'm *horrified* with the atrocities committed in Gaza, but I'm *equally* horrified at the rising tides of antisemitism and hatred I'm seeing. A synagogue in my (supposedly liberal, multicultural, west coast) city was *firebombed* three months ago. I hear self proclaimed leftists who I considered my friends repeating things which wouldn't have sounded out of place between the pages of Der Stürmer.
It really scares me.
It really feels like a switch got flipped post-October 7th, and the only thing that helps me contextualize it is knowing that yeah, so much of this language is imported from 4chan types. There’s an unholy maelstrom of AI, inflammatory algorithms, lack of moderation, and anonymity at play in social media today. Combine this with the latent antisemitism that the majority of gentiles unconsciously harbor and the history of leftist antisemitism that no one bothered to examine and it makes some sense. Not enough sense to explain my former friends spewing this vitriol. The conspiratorial mindset I recognize here is working on a similar axis as my anti-vax Trump-voting relatives because that also got imported from 4chan.
These articles do a good job of explaining how we got here:
